“Spare No Scrap: A Piece of Binder’s Waste as Evidence for Institutional Development at the Abbey of Pr\u00e9montr\u00e9 in the Thirteenth Century,\u201d in Revue d’histoire eccl\u00e9siastique<\/em>, 116:1\/2 (May\/June, 2021), 5-31. Co-written with Heather Wacha.<\/a><\/p>\n This article analyses the front flyleaf of the cartulary of Tinselve, a manuscript created at the northern French abbey of Pr\u00e9montr\u00e9 in the mid-13th century. While the manuscript proper contains acts associated with one of Pr\u00e9montr\u00e9\u2019s dependent curtes, Tinselve, the scrap piece of parchment used to create the flyleaf contains brief summaries of five letters to be sent from the abbey to other Premonstratensian houses in France and Germany and to a count of Holland. It is therefore a unique survival of the administrative ephemera which the mother abbey of a major medieval monastic order must once have created in abundance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cMapping the Middle Ages\u201d, in The Once and Future Classroom: Resources for Teaching the Middle Ages<\/em> 26:1 (Spring 2020).<\/a><\/p>\n I therefore designed this lesson to harness students\u2019 curiosity about the Middle Ages while building their facility with analyzing primary sources and developing their geographical knowledge. It uses cartographic sources\u2014maps and globes\u2014to help students better conceive of the horizons of the medieval world, and to better understand how the differences between a map sketched on parchment and one generated by a GPS system come down to more than simple matters of technological capability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cHow Joan of Arc Inspired the Suffragettes\u201d, The Public Medievalist<\/em>, September 10, 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n Davison\u2019s death drew international press coverage. She was swiftly hailed as a martyr by other militant suffragettes. Thousands gathered to form an honor guard for her coffin on its journey from Victoria Station to the funeral service. One of them, Elsie Howey, rode in costume as Joan of Arc. Many others wielded banners of purple silk on which were stitched words attributed to the medieval saint: \u201cFight On, and God Will Give the Victory.\u201d<\/p>\n This was far from the first time that feminists had rallied under the banner of Joan of Arc\u2014whether literally or metaphorically\u2014and it would not be the last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “History in Ruins: The Changing Fates of One of France’s Grandest Castles,” in History Today<\/em> 69:9 (September 2019), 76-83.<\/a><\/p>\n The changing fates of one of France\u2019s grandest castles are a microcosm for its history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Notre Dame has always been the people\u2019s cathedral,” in Vox, April 16, 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n Since the Middle Ages, it\u2019s been the backdrop against which the city\u2019s inhabitants have lived their lives. The building, which stands on a small island in the Seine River, was a constant amid the upheaval of the French Revolution and the terrors of the Nazi occupation. As one 14th century scholar wrote, the cathedral was \u201clike the sun among stars.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Review of Stephen Murray, Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral<\/em> (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), in The Medieval Review<\/em> 21.10.03 (2021).<\/a><\/p>\n In 1220, \u00c9vrard, bishop of Amiens, laid the first stone for his city\u2019s new cathedral. Eight centuries later, Stephen Murray has written a sweeping history which tells of that act and of the many others after it which were needed to construct the famous cathedral of Notre-Dame of Amiens. Murray writes with both great knowledge about and deep affection for the building, and Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral<\/i> is sure to be an absorbing read for anyone with an interest in the history of Gothic architecture or of Picardy during the Middle Ages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Not a publication announcement but a publication heads up. Heather Wacha and and I will be publishing our edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of Pr\u00e9montr\u00e9, the mother abbey of the Premonstratensian Order, next year. It will be available in both print and digital formats\u2014more to come about it soon!<\/p>\n Thrilled to be able to announce that after a lot of hard work, @hgwacha<\/a> and I will be publishing our edition of the cartulary of the abbey of Pr\u00e9montr\u00e9 with @MedievalAcademy<\/a> through @utpress<\/a> (print) and @digitallatin<\/a> (open-access digital)! Look for it in 2022. pic.twitter.com\/SwMO4Buslw<\/a><\/p>\n — Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nOther Writing<\/h4>\n
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